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Working with men in the NUT

1985

"My emphasis was on NUT (National
Union of Teachers) politics as much as anything because by then I was
well into the NUT which made me enemies in the Women's Liberation Movement because radical revolutionary feminists believe that you shouldn’t have any
truck with men. I don’t mean sexually, I mean socially, politically.
They thought it was very important that women set up new structures for
working. You got frustrated in the NUT because it was male dominated
and most of the teachers were women which didn’t make sense to me at
all. You’ve got to learn but you were frightened to say anything when
you were sat around the table in case it was wrong but I thought it was
worth pursuing. I was teaching at the time and that was a heavy job. I
used to take the kids away every Easter so there’s only so much of you
you can give to things”. (Ref: Trade Union)